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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite supremacists and fake news purveyors are spreading lies about cause of Heather Heyer's death.
And gullible people on message boards and fake news sites are swallowing the crap -- hook, line, and sinker. (Even this idiotic claim: "To my knowledge, no one else has died in these incidents when protesters are in the street and get run over. It happens quite frequently. )
The people who are spreading these lies about Heather are despicable.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/09/08/Fringe-media-are-furiously-trying-to-absolve-the-white-nationalist-who-allegedly-killed-He/217886
White nationalist and fringe media figures are trying to absolve Heather Heyer's alleged murderer by suggesting she died of a heart attack caused by health issues, not from a car running her over.
On August 12, during a gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, James Fields, a man with white nationalist sympathies, reportedly drove his car into a crowd of protesters, injuring at least 19 and killing Heyer. Fields has since been charged with second-degree murder.
On September 5, white nationalist and anti-Semitic writer Hunter Wallace wrote on his blog Occidental Dissent that Heyers mom said in an NBC interview she died of a heart attack and he seemed to blame Heyers weight, rather than Fields explicitly, for her death. He wrote, We cant find any information about Heather Heyers injuries or an autopsy. She does seem to be a very large woman though. My guess is that she was at least 250 pounds lying on her back in 90 degree heat. It is reasonable to wonder if her health had something to do with her death. Wallace added, To my knowledge, no else has died in these incidents when protesters are in the street and get run over. It happens quite frequently. The claim echoes what Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi blog The Daily Stormer (who had attacked Heyer by calling her an overweight slob with no children) had told The Washington Post weeks earlier, when the paper reported that Anglin disputed authorities conclusions, suggesting instead that Heyer may have suffered a heart attack at the scene.
Other fringe and white nationalist media figures have since run with Wallaces claim, with some implying it clears Fields of murder charges. Fake news purveyor Before Its News republished Wallaces blog post, and white nationalist podcast host James Allsup tweeted that Heyers mother and medical personnel confirmed Heyer died of a heart attack, adding that Wallaces post looks to be very well sourced. A YouTube account called Rogue Rebel that claims to be dedicated to exposing the left posted a video claiming that Heather heyer did not die as a result of being ran over, but from a massive heart attack. Daily Stormer writer Andrew Auernheimer, who is also a hacker known as weev and who previously threatened CNNs Andrew Kaczynski, wrote on Gab, a social media platform favored by white nationalists, that Heyers supposed heart attack meant murder charges on Fields gotta be dropped, and the public has to get told it's because Heyer was a fucking fat cow.
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SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Couldn't possibly cause a heart attack, the inhuman bullshit of these "people" makes me want to run over something myself.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Then again, someone I know tells me it is always the woman's fault.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)...That Idiot Is Going To Prison, P E R I O D.!!!!!!!
PB & J And An Orange For Life.
Fuckin Clowns With Shower Shows.
Girard442
(6,070 posts)What we need is for a bunch of neo-Nazis to volunteer for a special "Mythbusters". A bunch of them will stand in front of a speeding car and show us all how nobody dies when it plows into them. Hey, a bunch of racially pure Aryans wouldn't flinch from their duty to the master race, right?
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)any competent attorney would tell a jury that "This poor unlucky man happened to drive his case into Heather just an instant after she had died from a preventable coronary, due to her lifestyle, and since she was already dead you must find him innocent of murder, though he certainly showed a bad sense of timing" -- but maybe that's the only sort of counsel James Alex Fields Jr can get
lunasun
(21,646 posts)It is real insight into how sick these people truly are